the newsletter of tbd consultants - 1st qtr 2010

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A Broader Dimension
Sustainability Base
How Green Is My Building?
Recession - One Year On

Construction Management Specialists

111 Pine Street, Suite 1315
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 981-9430
 
806 West Pennsylvania Ave.
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 550-1187
 
8538 173rd Avenue NE
Redmond, WA 98052
(206) 571-0128

 
www.TBDconsultants.com

 

A Broader Dimension

Our newsletter started out four years ago as The Bay Dimension, and at that time TBD Consultants was a fairly new Bay Area company, so the name was appropriate. Now we have a second California office in San Diego, a new office in Seattle, Washington, and we have projects in places like New Jersey, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, and even as far afield as Moscow. The scope of our work has never been limited to the Bay Area, but with a growing proportion of our work being outside of our original home base it seemed appropriate to change our newsletter’s name to one less limiting geographically. Hence, we are now The Broad Dimension, another backronym (reverse-acronym) of TBD.

There are a number of other ways in which we consider that The Broad Dimension applies to our company:

  • The size and type of projects we handle spans the full gamut, from small developments to major projects, and including both new build and alteration work.
  • The construction sectors that we work in cover just about anything you can think of, including education, healthcare, transportation, industrial and commercial, retail, civic and military.
  • The breadth of our services, including project management (with cost and schedule management) and litigation support.
  • The technology we utilize in carrying out our work, from eye-balling documents for constructability reviews and the like, through traditional tools such as tape and measuring wheels on site, to the latest computer software including on-screen take-off, BIM systems, and the latest scheduling software.

But enough of this self-indulgence! While we have taken a bit of time to talk about ourselves while explaining the reason for the newsletter name-change, the real source of information about our company is our company Web site, or by contacting us.

The editorial policy of the newsletter remains the same as it always was, to take the big picture in bringing you the latest in market trends and developments affecting the construction industry. To that end, if you have suggestions for subjects we can address, or actual articles that we can consider for publication, then we will be delighted to receive them. We hope that you continue to find our newsletter informative and useful.

     
 

Sustainability Base

This is the story of a building that illustrates the ups and downs of the construction market and the growth of the green-building movement.

     
 

How Green is My Building?

We all know the LEED rating system for green buildings, but is that the only way to measure the "greenness" of a building? Here we look at some of the concerns regarding measuring how green a building really is.

    
 

Recession – One Year On

The recession might be technically over, but it sure doesn't feel like it. Here we take a look at where we are as the effects of the Great Recession drag on.

    

 

Design consultant: Katie Levine of Vallance, Inc.